Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 59
"Don't push me too close, honey," responded the old man; "don't shove me up in no cornder.
Who acts: you, old man · What happens: not push, respond, not shove up · To what, where: old man, last little boy, cornder · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 push | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 push | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 push | advmod |
| 4 | push | push | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 push | obj |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 close | advmod |
| 7 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 push | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 honey | punct |
| 9 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 close | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 push | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 push | punct |
| 12 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 push | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 responded | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 shove | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 shove | punct |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 shove | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 shove | advmod |
| 20 | shove | shove | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 push | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 shove | obj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 shove | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 cornder | case |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 cornder | det |
| 25 | cornder | cornder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shove | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 push | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not push in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the old man = man | close property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | respond speech: other | past | the old man | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not shove up in a quote | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | the last little boy = boy | no cornder | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme in cornder=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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